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I don’t want fossil fuel cars

I don’t want electric cars

I want fast trains so I can go visit Grandma

(she’s a sweet old lady and I’d like to visit more often without killing the planet, my wallet, or a pedestrian)

  • psud@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I did a long road trip over the Christmas break, two days of driving on rural highways (1 lane each way, metres from the wheat, barley, and sheep)

    The roads paralleled a railway most of the way, but there’s no passenger rail - only farm produce

    I would’ve enjoyed doing the trip by rail, even if it was no quicker than by car. The car stayed parked practically the whole time we were at the destination

  • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    6 months ago

    I don’t want fossil fuel cars

    I don’t want electric cars

    I don’t want fast trains

    I don’t want bikes or buses or walking

    I just want non-suicidy teleportation :(

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Honestly, teleporting devices sounds like something Elon would push for to further derail rail projects. I bet he already has a plan to release one in 5 years.

    • psud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      It pulls many carriages, full of people, using far, far less fuel per passenger. It is also not unrealistic to electrify the rail network

  • rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    01·
    6 months ago

    Just use the internet. No transportation needed, you can meet with anyone in any world you like, whenever you want in an instant, like teleportation. You can even be who you want to be. With internet you actually never need to leave the house ever again.